Presidents Day 2011 will be a memorable for us - our two trees out front finally came down, and not in a wind storm. We have talked about taking them down for several years and today was the day. We had a very noteworthy day as you'll see. First just a record of what the two trees look like from down the street
and then from laying on the sidewalk!
The chief cutter taking the limbs off - some were as big as trees themselves.
The zoom on this camera is great
Chipping -
can't believe how big the limbs are that can go through the chipper
Need help placing that highest ornament? I've got a name I can give you:)
One of the smaller divots of the day
Limbs gone - two at work getting the trees down
A log on its way down
The last shove before heading off
This one flying away was a bit too big - as you'll see!
It moved a big rock out of its place, smashed a few bricks and...
Cracked the city main water line leading from our meter - lucky for us it wasn't the new line we just put in. However it does seem that we always have some adventure when doing house repairs!
We called a city crew - they responded very quickly, found the crack and had it repaired in about 15 minutes.
A wish come true!
We took a short video but don't know quite how to put it on the blog - once we figure it out we'll upload it as well. All in all, a very productive day - and we're so grateful there were no injuries (I even got on the roof under close supervision to clean off all the sawdust!!)
